BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a former railway official to death for corruption, but promised a reprieve after two years of good behaviour, state media reported, in the latest graft case to hit China's sprawling rail network.
Wen Qingliang was sacked as head of the rail bureau in the southwestern city of Kunming in 2011 for "discipline" problems, the usual euphemism for corruption in China.
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